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单词 throw something away
释义

throw something away

1Discard something as useless or unwanted: many of the cans and bottles thrown away may have cost more to make than the contents...
  • If you manage to influence the general public enough, society will begin to see throwing a glass bottle away that could otherwise be recycled, as wrong.
  • As I was walking to the rubbish bin to throw the empty bottles away I spotted Leon and Alaina.
  • He stood up and with a slight difference in his walk threw his current bottle away and got a new one out of the fridge.

Synonyms

discard, throw out, dispose of, get rid of, do away with, toss out, scrap, throw on the scrapheap, clear out, remove, dispense with, lose, eliminate, dump, unload, jettison, shed, dismiss, expel, eject, weed out, root out;
recycle, break up, demolish, write off
informal chuck (away/out), ditch, bin, junk, get shut of
British informal get shot of, see the back of
North American informal trash, shuck off, wreck
1.1Discard a playing card in a game.
1.2Waste or fail to make use of an opportunity or advantage: I’ve thrown away my chances in life...
  • Let's not throw these advantages away by undermining the science education of our young people.
  • This was fuelled by a sense that major opportunities have been thrown away.
  • We are in a better position than what we were earlier this week and we must not throw this chance away.

Synonyms

squander, waste, fritter away, dissipate, run through, fail to exploit, make poor use of, lose, let slip
informal blow, pour/chuck something down the drain
2(Of an actor) deliver a line with deliberate underemphasis for increased dramatic effect: he covered up for his author by charmingly throwing away as many lines as possible...
  • As the eponymous heroine, she sings well but tries too hard to be cute and clever, and loses a lot of the humour in her part by overstressing her lines rather than throwing them away.
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